Dolly Pot – Western Mail, Perth – 21 November 1940, page 8 OVER THE PLATES An Unlucky Gamble Early in the “Roaring Nineties,” Billy Collins, Ned Campion, Barney, and I were camped at a pool ten miles west of Cue. At the south end of the pool, flies were making short work of a horse […]
The Crown for the Queen of the Murchison –
Geraldton Express and Murchison and Yalgo0 Goldfields Chronicle – 26 March 1897 Parer’s Crown Hotel, Cue, is one of the most popular resorts for visitors and residents of the town in which to make their home while in the fields. The name of Parer Bros is well known to everyone who has ever been in […]
The Waitress, the Barman, and the Wife
New Call and Bailey’s Weekly 25 July 1935 WHAT WIFE SAW THROUGH A CUE WINDOW Lively Ructions In Girl’s Room Chief Justice Grants Decree Nisi That a wife through a Cue window saw her husband in bed with another woman was alleged when before the Chief Justice (Sir John Northmore) this week Edith Bowes sought […]
Blood on the Goldfields: The Katherine Cane Tragedy
In March 1909, a shocking murder at Meekatharra stunned the people of the Murchison district and became one of the most widely discussed crimes on the Western Australian goldfields. The victim was Katherine Jane Cane, also known in the district as Caroline Jane Scott, a well-respected young woman who had been living apart from Donald […]
The Contract at Old Warden Shaft
Sunday Times: 22 December 1907 Old “Boney Brim” and his old mate Jolly walked deliberately into the bar of The Miners’ Arms, at Cue, and each drank a pint of beer. The contract for sinking the main shaft of the Old Warden mine another hundred feet had just been let, and the two mates had […]
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